First of John Peel’s record collection goes online. Just another 25,900 to go

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Eight years after John Peel’s death, fans can at last leaf through the
famously eclectic radio DJ’s record collection thanks to a pioneering new
arts project.

From this morning the public can visit a virtual
recreation of the home studio where Peel recorded his Thursday night
Radio 1 sessions to begin to explore the mysteries of his vast and
frequently obscure collection online.

Only the first hundred LPs beginning with the letter A have been released so
far, a fraction of the 26,000 albums Peel owned on vinyl. But already they
make for fascinating browsing, accompanied by scanned-in copies of

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John Peel with one of his 26,000 albums

May 1 2012 Eamonn McCabe/Getty Images

John Peel with one of his 26,000 albums

May 1 2012 Eamonn McCabe/Getty Images

Peel wrote index cards giving details of every album he owned

May 1 2012

John Peel DJing at the Reading Festival in 1992

May 1 2012 Times photography, Alice Dunhill

Peel joined Radio 1 in 1967 and broadcast regularly until his death in 2004